Sonnet Of The Wretched · Chelsea Grin

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 95-101 and 103-109 -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SONNET OF THE WRETCHED · BARS 95-96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26 and 14 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 13 sections: 82 keep time, 20 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-109.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART J
PART S
PART AC
PART AF
PART AK
PART AN
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBSAANAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sonnet Of The Wretched?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Sonnet Of The Wretched hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sonnet Of The Wretched?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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